Example sentences of "could [verb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At home , women may have all the rights they could want on paper , but they often vanish in a cloud of prejudice when you try to put them into practice ! |
| 2 | As husband of Louis VII 's sister , Constance , Raymond of Toulouse could count on help from his brother-in-law . |
| 3 | They could focus on content : |
| 4 | They could focus on performance : |
| 5 | They could focus on language production : |
| 6 | But the walls were heavy and thick , quarried stone ; that you could leap-frog on top , and there must ( the tenements ) be generations of kids up there . |
| 7 | Later , Margaret stopped playing for a few years so she could concentrate on squash but three years ago she returned to the sport and now plays outside hitter for the Balerno team . |
| 8 | Coleridge had struggled hard with Osorio , and even now he had little faith that it could succeed on stage . |
| 9 | The funeral was held in the morning of 23 October , so that Ken could appear on stage in The Private Ear and the Public Eye for a matinee that day . |
| 10 | There was nothing that Trent could do on deck . |
| 11 | Norman Wisdom was snapped by up Rank after he had proved what he could do on TV , and the cosy cop series Dixon of Dock Green ( 1955–76 ) was clearly a lineal descendant of Ealing 's The Blue Lamp . |
| 12 | A statement was issued from Ibrox yesterday detailing the unsatisfactory nature of the dealings with Bernard Tapie 's club , while expressing regret that there was nothing more Rangers could do on behalf of their now disgruntled fans . |
| 13 | Nothing they could do on earth would affect this destiny . |
| 14 | It illustrated up-to-date transport , such as rotor powered ships , the rotors being driven by the wind , and buses that could run on railway lines . |
| 15 | ‘ The theme of the story was that something very sinister had happened a long time ago which had left the planet looking entirely different from anywhere you could see on Earth . |
| 16 | We could see on limestone crags the sooty marks left by Tom in his desperate bid to escape . |
| 17 | The minimum number of hours a student could work on language varied wildly , probably because of the variable interpretations of ‘ language work ’ referred to above . |
| 18 | If colour is applied in a robust manner you may need some support to the canvas where it crosses the stretcher , or you could work on canvas mounted on board . |
| 19 | Other acts sought to prohibit as far as possible corrupt practices and limited the amount of money a candidate could spend on election expenses . |
| 20 | Secondly , the exporter could insist on payment or make out a bill of exchange in DMs and thus transfer the foreign exchange risk to the importer . |
| 21 | The King added that he knew MacDonald could depend on Conservative and Liberal support , and he agreed to preside over a meeting of the three party leaders on the following day . |
| 22 | No traditional formula could compete on value-for-money with a well-run guesthouse where , as the public has begun to realise , it can expect cheaper prices coupled with modern levels of comfort . |
| 23 | The planners held the conventional view that textiles was an attractive industry , because it was labour-intensive and could compete on world markets by virtue of low local wages . |
| 24 | Etchings were sent to a printer to make some impressions and someone surreptitiously made copies which he passed on to the defendant who intended to display them in an exhibition which the public could attend on payment of an admission charge . |
| 25 | As the paper goes on to point out : ‘ The availability of substantial permitted reserves and the effect this could have on implementation in the case of Option II [ on which MPG6 is based ] needs to be considered . ’ |
| 26 | As the paper goes on to point out : ‘ The availability of substantial permitted reserves and the effect this could have on implementation in the case of Option II [ on which MPG6 is based ] needs to be considered . ’ |
| 27 | In the past this was vitally important because of the effect it could have on trade . |
| 28 | It 's almost I could take on board another two to three clerks , and I could say , could I do what |
| 29 | It was a sprawling split-level place where you could take on board anything from a glass of beer to a four-course dinner plus the right wines at each course and with about as much choice about where to sit : at tables in the middle at booths and alcoves at the sides on the bar stools on other stools up against long shelves . |
| 30 | ‘ Thought he could walk on water , ’ McLeish said , in irritated memory . |